A Pegasus Ink & Myth series
Romantic Suspense & Small-Town Mystery Medium (Fade to Black)

The Saltwater Clause

The Saltwater Clause is a 10-book coastal romantic suspense series where beautiful harbors hide ugly secrets, the paperwork is never innocent, and following the money can get you killed.

10-book series New installments are planned on a rolling schedule.

About the Series

Cass Taylor follows suspicious losses, altered records, and corporate pressure through working New England harbors. With Beck Adams, who knows the water and the people who depend on it, she uncovers a pattern that grows more dangerous with every case.

World & Setting

Working Maine and New England harbors, from docks and boatyards to isolated fishing communities where licenses, claims, financing, and waterfront property determine who stays on the water.
Begin with Book One

Books in Reading Order

10 books total in this series.

Stay Off the Water book cover

Stay Off the Water

A fisherman is dead. His boat is burned. And somebody filed the insurance claim before his family could even bury him.

Expected release: September 17, 2026

Nobody Saw Anything book cover

Nobody Saw Anything

A dead fisherman tried to leave the truth behind. Someone got to his records first.

Expected release: October 8, 2026

Fire Doesn't Lie book cover

Fire Doesn’t Lie

Three fires. Three states. One pattern nobody was supposed to connect.

Expected release: October 29, 2026